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There is a growing demand for cocoa. However, cultivation is dependent on ageing trees with low yields and increasing vulnerability to disease. There is growing concern about the environmental impact of cultivation in areas soil health and biodiversity. There is therefore an urgent need to make cocoa...

This book is written for retinal specialists and clinicians with a special interest in retinal diseases. It presents a collection of images and brief annotations of the microstructures of both the normal and diseased eye captured on swept source optical coherence tomography. The swept-source...

Wiley-Blackwell's Clinical Cases series is designed to recognize the centrality of clinical cases to the profession by providing actual cases with an academic backbone. Clinical Cases in Orthodontics applies both theory and practice to real-life orthodontic cases in a clinically relevant format. This...

This book is written for retinal specialists and clinicians with a special interest in retinal diseases. It presents a collection of images and brief annotations of the microstructures of both the normal and diseased eye captured on swept source optical coherence tomography. The swept-source...

在科技界，他是「矽谷之父」；在管理方面，他被譽為「OKR之父」！ 寫給任何層級經理人的管理指南 經典重現 ★華頓商學院封「近25年來最具影響力的商界人士。」 ★比爾．蓋茲稱「20****世紀最偉大的商業領導者之一。」 ★彼得．杜拉克譽「這是一本重要的書。」 ★馬克．祖克柏推崇「書裡的原則形塑了我的管理風格。」 ★出版超過30年，仍盤踞亞馬遜商管領導類暢銷榜 引發各世代無數頂尖管理者追隨， 連科技巨頭、創投天王都奉為圭臬的管理經典。 就讓英特爾傳奇總裁──安德魯．葛洛夫從頭說起。 管理無分大小，不管是營收上億的大型企業或是街角邊的早餐店，都有大學問隱藏其中。如何用最短步驟達到最快產出？如何保證品質、控制庫存？當小店開始繁衍，該集權或是分權？得招聘什麼樣的人才？如何推動組織？如此多般的決策，正是經理人的職責；而決策背後的思考，更是經理人的價值所在。 從工程師到企業領導者，葛洛夫將製造業的「產出」概念導入經理人的工作核心，逐一解析生產、績效之方，以及提點用人、規劃之道。面對瞬息萬變的時代，只有能在變化中存活的人才會對未來保持樂觀。葛洛夫讓人透徹了解「管理」的用意與深意，創下歷久彌新的經理人典範。 本書三大基本概念： ▲****產出導向管理 針對目標設計工作流程與檢驗方法，質疑每個步驟存在的理由。唯有將「產出」的概念僅記在心，公司管理才能更上軌道。 ▲打好團體戰 無論是政府或私人企業，大部分的人類活動都是靠團隊成事。葛洛夫提出「管理槓桿率」的觀念，說明提高槓桿率的管理活動才能帶來高產能。 ▲讓每個人都各盡所能 所有管理都包含績效評估，這是經理人再難也得做的事，但無論是找人、用人、訓練或論功行賞，別忘記你最重要的目的其實是：增進部屬的績效。 【精華附錄｜葛洛夫給經理人的叮嚀】 如何成長為傑出的經理人？葛洛夫更將各篇要旨提煉為二十四道課題，幫助你逐一檢視自己的管理作為，這套法則更能為各行各業的專業工作者、主管職等提升生產力！ 各界推薦 名人推薦 國立政治大學創新管理教授...

Nanotechnology, Volume 46*,* the latest release in the Methods in Microbiology series, contains review articles on the application of nanotechnology in various fields of microbiology, including environmental microbiology, food microbiology and medical microbiology. Chapters in this new release include...

Leif and Marisa Andersson are an attractive couple in their forties who appear to have it all: Successful businesses. Beautiful children. A lovely home. But one August evening, their car crashes into a pillar, killing Leif instantly and leaving Marisa critically injured. What consequences will...

Andy Grove, founder and former CEO of Intel shares his strategy for success as he takes the reader deep inside the workings of a major company in Only the Paranoid Survive. Under Andy Grove's leadership, Intel became the world's largest chip maker and one of the most admired companies in the...

In this legendary business book and Silicon Valley staple, the former chairman and CEO (and employee number three) of Intel shares his perspective on how to build and run a company. The essential skill of creating and maintaining new businesses—the art of the entrepreneur—can be summed...

Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: H. P. Lovecraft: The Dunwich Horror. From Beyond… Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Rip Van Winkle The Spectre Bridegroom...

This holiday, we are offering to you our own Christmas box - filled up to the top with the best Christmas novels, classics to read during holidays, magical Christmas tales, legends, most famous carols and the unique poetry of the giants of literature dedicated to this one and only holiday: The Gift...

Elegant and concise, this childhood memoir of Andy Grove, one of the pioneers of Silicon Valley, begins in Budapest, Hungary where the author was born into a secular Jewish family in 1936. As a small child, Andris Grof was told, “Jesus Christ was killed by the Jews, and because of that, all of the...

H.P. Lovecraft, one of the twentieth century’s most important writers in the genre of horror fiction, famously referred to Edgar Allan Poe as both his “model” and his “God of Fiction.” While scholars and readers of Poe’s and Lovecraft’s work have long recognized the connection between...

While the fiction of novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand is extremely popular and enduring, little has been written on it so far. This book consists of essays, most of which are new, by top Rand scholars on Atlas Shrugged, her magnum opus. The essays deal with historical, literary, and philosophical topics,...